Great photos.
The Last Cowboys: Real Americans....the few...very few....damn few...
Semper Watching!
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The one where all the horses are in a circle, facing out, is interesting. I wonder what the hell is going on?
LOl, a lot of those pictures could have come out of my family album. My husband’s grandfather took pictures of everything from Pancho Villa’s raid to everyday cowboy life and his mother always photographed brandings.
The Great Basin is a harsh, austere work of natural art. My work takes me there regularly. And, yes, I often stumble upon herds of wild horses.
Interestingly enough, I occasionally stumble upon the "cousin" of the cowboy -- the shepherd. In some very remote places in the mountains and valleys of northern Nevada, I'll run into a lone Basque shepherd (often with dogs) tending to a large flock of free-ranging sheep. I'll find their tiny trailers out in these remote places too.
In the most beautiful state in the Union, Nevada keeps the tradition of the Romantic West alive.
Thanks for sharing these photos!
Great photos! I love one of the comments posted by a female reader from London: “I bet those men don’t get their eyebrows plucked and chests waxed, Hmmm.......lovely !”
America’s last cowboys?
The ‘journalist’/photographer apparently has not been in the western USA.
There are still many real cowboys.
Great old pictures but there ARE still cowboys out there, LOTS of cowboys. They don’t drive herds of cattle for hundreds of miles across the country but they still round them up and put them on tractor trailer trucks and they are hauled to market. Then they put their horses and dogs into trailers and haul them back home.
The Mail posts some of these “lost” photos of America from time to time and I love it. But why aren’t American papers doing this? Why do we have to read Brit papers to find articles regarding the bastard in the White House and his antics? American Journos are hacks.
Beautiful pics. Always interesting to contrast the romanticized and the real, hard life of cowboys...
These pictures look like they were taken off at Hollywood movie set. They remind me of Ansel Adams.
The Marlboro Man comes close to the real thing, doesn’t he?
Great pictures all in favorites however I think the first picture was actually Don Imus.
There is just something very special about black and white photographs! My niece in New Orleans is a photographer, and she works almost exclusively in black and white.
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We have Cowboys round here.
They go work the cattle get them on trucks and then go home with thier horse and dog.
I love to watch them work Horse, Dog, and Man all moving one of the dumbest creatures ever to where they dont want to go.
It can be like poetry in motion when watching them I have spent more than one lunch hour watching them work.
Another thing to notice from the pic collection is there's no long hair, beards, or Hollywood 'cowboy' mustaches on these Nevada ropers. You wake up, you wash your face and shave clean. You get haircuts when you go into town. That's the rules at least in this state. I've never seen them look any different.
Well, viewing these put me in another place there for a half-hour or so — wonderful.
But — can someone tell me what to do with the red X’s, please.
Diminishing maybe, but not dead. Most of the stockmen (and ladies) I know have second jobs because the cattle economy operates on such a thin margin and lately there are huge impending feed and fuel issues. Helped a pair of friends hitch their trailer up over the weekend - it had been parked on my property for more than a year - and they’re going to flail away at it one more time, God bless ‘em.
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